The goal of the course is to give you the tools to initiate a project plan, manage both stakeholders and relationships, organize their team, develop a project charter, and build a business case for a project.
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Perform a project assessment using information from previous projects and lessons learned
- Identify key deliverables based on business requirements while managing customer expectations
- Perform a stakeholder analysis and create a management plan
- Analyze and develop a project organization
- Create a project charter
- Explain the business case for a project and calculate Net Present Value
- Inform stakeholders of the charter and ensure all parties know the deliverables and expectations
As part of the course, you will prepare organization charts, create a Stakeholder Register, and write a Project Charter based on an engineering project in a provided Case Study. The Stakeholder Register will outline the key parties to the project, their concerns and how you will manage their expectations. Your Project Charter will provide the key guidance your team needs to understand the scope, requirements and purpose for the project.
All of this will position you for initiating and planning your first project and/or understanding how you can maximize your contributions on your next project team.
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership is a Registered Education Provider through the Project Management Institute (PMI)®. Learners who complete this course on the Certificate track will be awarded 12 hours of Profession Development Units. These are recognized by PMI for continuing education or can be applied toward the 35 hours of education required for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification.
PMI and PMP are registered marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Impartido por:

Tom Phalen

Kazimir Karwowski

Transcripción

Hello and welcome to module two, of engineering project management, initiating and planning. In this module, we will be discussing project organizations and processes. We will look at how projects are organized and then discuss the processes that make up a project. In the last module, we'll review the nature of a project, what is project management and why is it important, the phases of a project, the role of the project manager, and last we'll review the process for making ethical decisions as well as the PMI code of ethics. So now you've been made the manager of a project, what now? What's next? The first thing you want to do is get organized. This course is about initiating and planning a project. This is the getting started part of project management. You want to follow the processes outlined in this course to set up and plan your project. One of the first steps in this journey is setting up a project organization. As part of this module, we look at the most prevalent types of project organizations. We will also review the strengths and weaknesses of each type and discuss how you might select the project organization that's best for your project. There are other project organizations besides the ones we will discuss, they can and have been used successfully. However in the interest of time, we will limit ourselves to the most prevalent organization types. At the end of this module, you should be able to discuss how an organization's culture and style may impact your project organization decision, Identify the most prevalent organizational structures, discuss the pros and cons of each structure for your project, identify the project management processes, discuss the role of knowledge areas in your execution. And finally, understand the role of a project manager as a leader. At the end of this module, you will select and prepare your own project organization chart, based on a case study that has been provided. So, let's get started and take a look at the different project organization times.